St Petersburg College Exempt and Non Exempt Jobs Discussion

respond to these discussion posts with 150 words each and a source each!

1) What is the difference between exempt and nonexempt jobs?

The Fair Labor Standards Act is legislature that details job pay and procedures. It includes things such as minimum wage, overtime pay, maximum hours, child labor laws, equal pay, etc. It was created to ensure employees are paid fairly and equally for almost all occupations. Under the law there are however exempt and nonexempt jobs. Certain jobs do not fall under the protection of the FLSA legislature. These are considered exempt jobs. They include professions like lawyers, doctors, teachers, and pharmacists among others. Most professionals are exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirements. Other employees who fall under the protection of the FLSA legislature are considered nonexempt. They include occupations like paralegals, bookkeepers, clerical workers, and clerks. Nonexempt employees usually have to make under a specified amount of money.

Dessler, G. (2017). Human Resource Management (15th ed.). Pearson

2) What is the difference between exempt and nonexempt jobs?

There are many differences that set exempt and nonexempt jobs apart. But first let us start by defining what exempt and nonexempt jobs are. Non-exempt and exempt are terms established under the fair labor standards act better known as FLSA. FLSA is a federal law that creates and implement minimum-wage, monitor and defines procedure related to overtime pay requirements for employees, and it also provides policy and procedure on rules for equal pay and child labor laws. “Specific categories of employees are exempt from the FLSA or certain provisions of the act and particularly from the act’s overtime provisions (Dessler, G. (2017).” Things like your salary, responsibilities, task, or job skill, and even title plays a part in whether you are an exempt or nonexempt employee. “Generally, executives and professional employees like architects are generally exempt from the minimum wage in overtime requirements of the exempt employee act (Dessler, G. (2017).” A non-exempt employee does not necessarily have a professional or executive title, their task and responsibilities are also a lot less stringent than those of exempt status, and overtime pay provisions are covered under the FLSA act. So, when thanking about or comparing nonexempt employees to exempt employees keep in mind that exit exempt employees carries more responsibility in terms of job title and position then non-exempt employees. “Administrative exemption is designed for high-level employees whose main focus is to keep the business running. Some examples of administrative functions whose high-level employees may typically be exempt include labor relations and personnel human resources employees, payroll and finance including budgeting and benefits management, records maintenance, accounting, and tax, marketing and advertising, direct sales, quality control, public relations including shareholder investment relations and government relations, legal and regulatory compliance in some computer related jobs such as network, Internet and database administration (Dessler, G. (2017).” Non-exempt employees play more of a supportive role to the exempt roles.

Reference

Dessler, G. (2017). Human Resource Management (15th ed.). Pearson